Sugar Grove officials announced Friday that a Village Board meeting to potentially make a final decision on the controversial development proposed by Crown Community Development, originally set for Sept. 3, will be delayed until Sept. 10.
A post to the village’s Facebook page said that the special meeting will take place at Village Bible Church, 847 N. Sugar Grove Parkway in Sugar Grove, at 6 p.m. Sept. 10.
According to Village Administrator Scott Koeppel, the meeting was rescheduled because an earlier meeting, where board members heard residents’ concerns and discussed all of the different aspects of the project as a whole for the first time, took multiple days to complete. That meeting started on Aug. 20, was continued until Aug. 22 and was continued again until Aug. 27, when the meeting was adjourned after nearly 18 total hours over the three days.
Koeppel said that village staff wanted to make sure all of the changes that were requested and questions that were asked by Village Board members had time to be worked through ahead of the board’s consideration of The Grove, the controversial 760-acre mixed-use development proposed by Crown Community Development around the Interstate 88 and Route 47 interchange.
While the meeting that started on Aug. 20 was the first time the Sugar Grove Village Board discussed all parts of Crown Community Development’s request — including a request to annex the 760 acres, subdivide the land into different areas based on land use, zone the land under a Planned Development District and apply a tax increment financing, or TIF, district to the area — it was far from the first meeting about the proposed development.
Various parts of the proposal have also gone before a Joint Review Board of various taxing bodies that would be impacted by the proposed TIF district, been up for a public hearing on the proposed TIF district and was the subject of a multi-day Sugar Grove Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals meeting that lasted around 12 hours over several days.
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